It's not a background consciousness but a background to consciousness, to experiencing in its widest sense, to being and so it is not itself conscious or experienced or something that is. --So, it's nothing at all, you are just imagining it, you come out of nothing and go back into nothing! --Indeed, but you speak as if you know what this nothing is whereas you can only refer to it in relation to things, as the absence of things, as if it were easily understood, but in this way you cannot reach the nothing of which I speak.